BENIN CITY – Oredo Local Government Council has expressed concern over the destruction of property worth millions of Naira caused by the ravaging flood that swept through parts of Benin City recently recording at least two deaths and scores of wounded persons.
Council Chairman, Hon. Mike Nosa-Ehima led top management functionaries of the council, during the environmental sanitation exercise last Saturday to visit some of the worst hit areas in Oredo Wards One and Six, and expressed the readiness of the council to immediately put in place measures to check such devastation in future.
At Ivbiye, 3rd Cemetery and Uwa Streets in ward six, Hon. Nosa-Ehima took a guided tour of the area and was taken aback at the large scale destruction caused by flood to houses, many of which have been abandoned by their owners.
While expressing sympathy at the damage, the Oredo council boss assured residents of the streets and environs of his administration’s preparedness to urgently find ways of desilting the drains so that the flood could be properly channelled into existing drainages.
Hon. Nosa-Ehima appreciated the enormity of work to be done to properly and permanently put the flood problem at bay in the area, but emphasised that Oredo local government council would commit resources to fighting the problem before calling on the federal and state governments for assistance.
The Oredo council boss used the opportunity of the visit to meet with the elders of the area at the residence of Pa Omonuwa, where he took suggestions as to how the flood menace could be permanently checked.
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